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Cow Skinning Takes A Deadly Turn: Gujarat Dalit Protest Spreads

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/cow-skinning-takes-a-deadly-turn-gujarat-dalit-protest-spreads/

Gujarat is witnessing widespread protests following the incident at Una where seven Dalit youths were beaten up for skinning a dead cow on July 11. 16 members of the Dalit community, including local Congress leader Anil Madhad, attempted suicide in Saurashtra on Monday and Tuesday as a form of protest. Several suicide attempts were reported on Tuesday from Junagadh, Gondal, Kesod and Ahmedabad. According to local news agency Sandesh, one Hemant Bhika Solanki died after drinking poison in Khambaliya village, Bhesan

Turning Cows Into Man-Eaters  
by Samar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/turning-cows-into-man-eaters/

Cows have always been herbivorous animals that eat grass. The State must not turn them into man-eaters. And, the only way to do ensure this is for the State to reclaim its authority of being the sole source of legitimate coercion, to prosecute the vigilantes, and to send them where they belong for their criminal actions: the country’s prisons.

Hot Hot Heat: New Data Shows World Is Baking In 2016
by Deirdre Fulton 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/hot-hot-heat-new-data-shows-world-is-baking-in-2016/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) announced Tuesday that June 2016 was 1.62° F above the 20th century average, breaking last year’s record for the warmest June on record by .04° F. This made June the 14th consecutive month to shatter records. What’s more, NOAA reported, the globally averaged sea surface temperature was at a record high for June as well as the year-to-date.

From Ecology To Education
by Rajaraman Sundaresan 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/from-ecology-to-education/

Schools today have turned into institution of evils, which not only destroy childhood but also restrict one’s right to think and imagine a future which is ecologically sustainable. A school in that sense restricts a child from being a part of community because the very aesthetics of classroom prohibits a child from knowing and being a part of the ecology. One feels that a child’s right to his sensorium of knowledges is reduced to a mere four-walled classroom learning process where he no longer belongs to ecology of knowledges but summons himself to the consumption of graded knowledges

In the Shadow Of Monsanto: GMO Regulation And The Right To Know
by Colin Todhunter 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/in-the-shadow-of-monsanto-gmo-regulation-and-the-right-to-know/

The GMO agritech sector and food companies have spent tens of millions of dollars in the US to prevent the labelling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The public have genuine concerns about GM but are being denied the right to know if GMOs are in the food they eat. And the concerns they have are valid.

Plebiscite, Now! Kashmir Belongs To Kashmiris!
Co-Written By Dr. P.S. Sahni & Shobha Aggarwal

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/plebiscite-now-kashmir-belongs-to-kashmiris/

The Kashmiris were promised a plebiscite after India’s independence but it has never come about. There is a U.N. resolution to this effect but it has been given a silent burial. All assurances given to the people of Kashmir by the Government of India and the ruling class parties in India have been flagrantly violated. There are between seven hundred thousand to a million strong army men based in Kashmir; the Kashmiris see this as an army of occupation. Draconian laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act ensure a state of continued emergency.

Youth Aspirations And “Conflict Culture” In Kashmir
by Bilal A Malik 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/youth-aspirations-and-conflict-culture-in-kashmir/

What worries me most, is reversing trajectory of “youth aspirations” from picking up guns in early 1990’s to replacement with stones form 2008 onwards and now back to the “gun”. This is really a big transformation in youth and about which all stakeholders of Kashmir issue must think over. If an acceptable “political” solution is not made this time then Kashmir in the future will be seeing more graveyards and more mothers will be mourning for their sons.


Why The Largest Democracy Is Demon-crazy In Kashmir?
by Sukumaran C V 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/why-the-largest-democracy-is-demon-crazy-in-kashmir/

The Kashmir valley is neither the property of Pakistan nor of India; it is the motherland of Kashmiris. I urge the Indian state to let the people of Kashmir live peacefully without being forced to be a part of the Indian Union. How can you force others to be a part of your country and call it ‘union’? Isn’t it ridiculous? 


Banning And Banishing: The Nonsense About Muslims
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/19/banning-and-banishing-the-nonsense-about-muslims/

Those who favour bans on immigrants of a specific religion tend to ignore the obvious point about what resident, and Australian-born followers of that faith would do.    What better statement of deprivation and estrangement could there be than one of state-sanctioned exclusion. What next?  Concentration camps?  Perhaps the logic here is one of internment and ultimate banishment.  Trump would be proud.

Supreme Court Cleans The BCCI: A Historical Step In Modern India
by Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/19/supreme-court-cleans-the-bcci-a-historical-step-in-modern-india/

Hon’ble Supreme Court (Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Judge Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla) has accepted major recommendations of  R M Lodha Panel’s report on BCCI, thus lays  the major edifice of reformation and cleaning up of the richest cricket board BCCI. 

Neoliberal Australia Re-elects War Criminal, Climate Criminal, Pro-Apartheid, Child-abusing Coalition Government
by Dr Gideon Polya 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/19/neoliberal-australia-re-elects-war-criminal-climate-criminal-pro-apartheid-child-abusing-coalition-government/

How did a rich and literate  democracy, Australia, descend into this genocidal, ecocidal, speciescidal, and ultimately omnicidal and terracidal moral pit?  In a word, through lying.  Australian Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes  and hence Australian public life are firmly dedicated to lying by omission which is far, far worse than lying by commission because the latter at least means public correction and public debate.  Yet lying is antithetical to democracy and to science-based rational risk management that is crucial for societal safety

Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull: The Failure Of Success
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/19/australias-malcolm-turnbull-the-failure-of-success/

The division is significant in pushing the Turnbull government into a more military frame of mind.  Think defence, think business. This is hardly endearing in a peaceful context, but it certainly will tickle parts of the electorate intoxicated by the link between armaments and money.  Pyne certainly thinks so, seen defence as “an economic and innovation driver as we shift from the post mining construction boom period into a new age of innovation.”


Tough Russian Anti-Capitalist Literature
by Andre Vltchek 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/tough-russian-anti-capitalist-literature/

In R.A.B. Minaev goes much further. His yuppies (paradoxically, the mid and upper-level managers) start a rebellion against the system. They go on strike, march through the streets, and build barricades. They begin demanding social justice. They burn down their own offices.

Money Talks As Trump Does U-Turn On Israel
by Jonathan Cook 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/money-talks-as-trump-does-u-turn-on-israel/

The question now is whether the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, who positions herself as Israel’s greatest ally, will try to outbid Trump in cravenly submitting to the Israeli right.

Kandhamal Killings: Special Operations Group Should Be Prosecuted
Press Release

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/kandhamal-killings-special-operations-group-should-be-prosecuted/

A four-member team of the Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan(GASS, Odisha) and the Human Rights Forum (HRF, AP and Telangana) visited Gumudumaha village on July 17 and spoke with local residents including eyewitnesses to the killings.

Fascists Under The Garb Of Islam
by Shamsul Islam 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/fascists-under-the-garb-of-islam/

India with third largest population of Muslims in the world would have been a good recruitment place for Islam-o-fascists. But Indian Muslims have never been part of any such project in the past and there is no likelihood of their falling prey to such a nefarious project. It is heartening to know that out of almost 17 crores of Muslims, according to Indian intelligence agencies, less than fifty persons have joined Islam-o-fascist ranks

How Britain’s Aristocracy Are Playing The Brexit Thing
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/how-britains-aristocracy-are-playing-the-brexit-thing/

Britain’s aristocracy are unyielding that UK remain in EU; the reason they won’t yield is that EU represents Europe’s aristocracies, including Britain’s, and it holds the power to override Britain’s unwritten constitution in favor of Britain’s aristocracy: EU is good to aristocrats — far better for them than any nation’s Constitution is


Gang Rape Survivor Gang Raped By The Same Accused Again
by Samar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/gang-rape-survivor-gang-raped-by-the-same-accused-again/

The assault took place in Rohtak, Haryana, 66 kilometres from Delhi, the national capital. The young woman was reportedly waylaid by the accused when she stepped out of her college, raped, and left to die in the bushes. The survivor was rushed to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak where she is currently recuperating. The mother of the gang rape survivor has claimed that the motive of the assault was to force the family into withdrawing the case they had filed after her daughter was first gang raped in October 2013. Two of the accused, arrested and jailed, were granted bail last month.

Turkey: From Gezi Resistance To Coup d’état
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/20/turkey-from-gezi-resistance-to-coup-detat/

A few weeks after the dawn of the third anniversary of the Gezi resistance (uprising), the popular non-violence movement spreads countrywide in 2013, and the people of Turkey have had an experience the “military coup”.    Hundreds were dead, thousands were arrested and put behind bars